Marie Daly

Marie Daly

Marie Daly was born on April 16, 1921, in Queens, New York. She was raised in an education-oriented family that believed strongly in the power of education. Her father, Ivan C. Daly, had emigrated from the West Indies as a young man and enrolled at Cornell University...
Diane Nash

Diane Nash

Diane Judith Nash was born on May 15, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois, Nash grew up middle-class and raised Catholic. Her father, Leon, served in the military as a clerk during World War II, and her mother, Dorothy Bolton, was a keypunch operator. Her parents divorced and...